Margaret J Wiener
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret J Wiener |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret J |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiener |
| SIGNATURE | WIENER M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0479-4579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Centennial Cosmopolitics in Bali
This article considers cosmopolitics in Indonesia through an analysis of the 2008 centennial of the colonial conquest of Klungkung, once Bali’s paramount realm. Starting from a division of labour between civil servants and descendants of Klungkung rulers in coordinating commemorative events, it zeroes in on a ritual the latter organised that complicates familiar approaches to politics and religion. This involves tracking why the rite was held, th…
Staging magic
Comment on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic's reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Colonial Magic: The Dutch East Indies
The banishment of Mistress Missa was established as a necessary priority of religious reform in England. The link between magic and the Mass reached to the heart of the liturgy, and of late medieval devotion, in the assertion that transubstantiation was itself no miracle, but rather a magical or quasi-magical manipulation by the priest. The image of the priest not as celebrant but as conjuror cast the central rite of the church as a diabolic act.…
Island cooking
Comment on Palmié, Stephan. 2013. The cooking of history: How not to study Afro-Cuban religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
Magic, (colonial) science and science studies: Magic, (Colonial) Science and Science Studies
This article draws on Latour's ethnography of science, analysis of the Great Divide and call for a symmetrical anthropology, to follow magic's emergence as a modern category. The focus is ethnology in colonial Indonesia. Tracing a practice initially known as , it analyses five successive Dutch texts. Early texts show that could affect Europeans but purify 's effects as either natural or cultural/psychological. In later texts, that translate as ma…
Dangerous Liaisons and other Tales from the Twilight Zone: Sex, Race, and Sorcery in Colonial Java
I have only once seen witchcraft on its path. I had been sitting late in my hut writing notes. About midnight, before retiring, I took a spear and went for my usual nocturnal stroll. I was walking in the garden at the back of my hut, amongst banana trees, when I noticed a bright light passing at the back of my servants' huts towards the homestead of a man called Tupoi. As this seemed worth investigation I followed its passage until a grass screen…
Making Worlds through Religion, Science and Magic
Pay No Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Irreverent Notes on Gender and Ethnography
This article argues the importance of gender roles and ideologies in understanding the theory and practice of ethnography. It begins by evoking four female "muses" who provide insight into the process of making ethnographic knowledge. It then argues that fieldwork potentially produces multiply positioned individuals and that skills conventionally regarded as "feminine" in late‐20th‐century America enable such processes
Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali
Visible and invisible realms: Power, magic, and colonial conquest in Bali
Doors of Perception: Power and Representation in Bali
Adat and Dinas: Balinese Communities in the Indonesian State. Carol Warren
Object lessons: Dutch Colonialism and the looting of Bali
1994). Object lessons: Dutch Colonialism and the looting of Bali. History and Anthropology: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 347-370
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living. Unni Wikan
Things in (Un)Common: Two Reflections
This article reflects on the way two things associated with Bali - heirloom daggers (kris) and the island's territory - are enlisted to assemble multiple but linked worlds. The kris in question traverse pre-colonial polities, colonial policies and institutions, national heritage, and efforts to recompose local politics. Bali's terrain, made by geological and cosmological forces and ritual practices, has been drawn into Cold War killings that prod…
Visible and invisible realms: Power, magic, and colonial conquest in Bali
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
Object lessons: Dutch Colonialism and the looting of Bali
1994). Object lessons: Dutch Colonialism and the looting of Bali. History and Anthropology: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 347-370
Doors of Perception: Power and Representation in Bali
Dangerous Liaisons and other Tales from the Twilight Zone: Sex, Race, and Sorcery in Colonial Java
I have only once seen witchcraft on its path. I had been sitting late in my hut writing notes. About midnight, before retiring, I took a spear and went for my usual nocturnal stroll. I was walking in the garden at the back of my hut, amongst banana trees, when I noticed a bright light passing at the back of my servants' huts towards the homestead of a man called Tupoi. As this seemed worth investigation I followed its passage until a grass screen…
Making Worlds through Religion, Science and Magic
Island cooking
Comment on Palmié, Stephan. 2013. The cooking of history: How not to study Afro-Cuban religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Pay No Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Irreverent Notes on Gender and Ethnography
This article argues the importance of gender roles and ideologies in understanding the theory and practice of ethnography. It begins by evoking four female "muses" who provide insight into the process of making ethnographic knowledge. It then argues that fieldwork potentially produces multiply positioned individuals and that skills conventionally regarded as "feminine" in late‐20th‐century America enable such processes
Things in (Un)Common: Two Reflections
This article reflects on the way two things associated with Bali - heirloom daggers (kris) and the island's territory - are enlisted to assemble multiple but linked worlds. The kris in question traverse pre-colonial polities, colonial policies and institutions, national heritage, and efforts to recompose local politics. Bali's terrain, made by geological and cosmological forces and ritual practices, has been drawn into Cold War killings that prod…
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living. Unni Wikan
Object lessons: Dutch Colonialism and the looting of Bali
1994). Object lessons: Dutch Colonialism and the looting of Bali. History and Anthropology: Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 347-370
Visible and invisible realms: Power, magic, and colonial conquest in Bali
Doors of Perception: Power and Representation in Bali
Adat and Dinas: Balinese Communities in the Indonesian State. Carol Warren
Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali
Pay No Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Irreverent Notes on Gender and Ethnography
This article argues the importance of gender roles and ideologies in understanding the theory and practice of ethnography. It begins by evoking four female "muses" who provide insight into the process of making ethnographic knowledge. It then argues that fieldwork potentially produces multiply positioned individuals and that skills conventionally regarded as "feminine" in late‐20th‐century America enable such processes
Making Worlds through Religion, Science and Magic
Dangerous Liaisons and other Tales from the Twilight Zone: Sex, Race, and Sorcery in Colonial Java
I have only once seen witchcraft on its path. I had been sitting late in my hut writing notes. About midnight, before retiring, I took a spear and went for my usual nocturnal stroll. I was walking in the garden at the back of my hut, amongst banana trees, when I noticed a bright light passing at the back of my servants' huts towards the homestead of a man called Tupoi. As this seemed worth investigation I followed its passage until a grass screen…
Magic, (colonial) science and science studies: Magic, (Colonial) Science and Science Studies
This article draws on Latour's ethnography of science, analysis of the Great Divide and call for a symmetrical anthropology, to follow magic's emergence as a modern category. The focus is ethnology in colonial Indonesia. Tracing a practice initially known as , it analyses five successive Dutch texts. Early texts show that could affect Europeans but purify 's effects as either natural or cultural/psychological. In later texts, that translate as ma…
Colonial Magic: The Dutch East Indies
The banishment of Mistress Missa was established as a necessary priority of religious reform in England. The link between magic and the Mass reached to the heart of the liturgy, and of late medieval devotion, in the assertion that transubstantiation was itself no miracle, but rather a magical or quasi-magical manipulation by the priest. The image of the priest not as celebrant but as conjuror cast the central rite of the church as a diabolic act.…
Island cooking
Comment on Palmié, Stephan. 2013. The cooking of history: How not to study Afro-Cuban religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Anthropology and STS: Generative interfaces, multiple locations
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also site…
Staging magic
Comment on Jones, Graham M. 2017. Magic's reason: An anthropology of analogy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Centennial Cosmopolitics in Bali
This article considers cosmopolitics in Indonesia through an analysis of the 2008 centennial of the colonial conquest of Klungkung, once Bali’s paramount realm. Starting from a division of labour between civil servants and descendants of Klungkung rulers in coordinating commemorative events, it zeroes in on a ritual the latter organised that complicates familiar approaches to politics and religion. This involves tracking why the rite was held, th…
Sociology (9 works) · Asian Studies and History (8 works) · Colonialism (8 works) · History (8 works) · Anthropology (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)